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Wine 2.0 released

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Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by bdcravens »

deepuj wrote: post #37
excalibur wrote: post #20

> The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS. This made me chuckle. Better late than never I suppose.

I havent used office in a many years now.. but I thought MS Office is now an online offering similar to Google Docs?

Microsoft Access is still used pretty heavily. As a developer, you may at some point be handed off an Access database. Additionally, Powerpoint still gets heavy usage, and switching to Google's version you're likely to lose a lot of design fidelity.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by bigbugbag »

duozerk wrote: post #58
mrmondo wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Took the words out of my mouth. It's saved me from having to install complex or insecure VMs or additional machines so many times I can't count. I also enjoy using it to bundle applications usable on Linux and MacOS that otherwise were locked in to windows.

It's also a godsend for gaming on Linux. As long as you take a peek at the wine appdb page for the game you're trying to run beforehand, they usually work great and with pretty good performances. Though granted the games I play tend not to be cutting edge (but for example, Skyrim with a large texture pack and a full, heavy mod conversion such as Enderal works perfectly and with CSMT, with performances roughly equal t…

> It's also a godsend for windows gaming on Linux

here FTFY.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by bdcravens »

someguy101010 wrote: post #19
singularity2001 wrote: post #16

Did anyone manage to navigate through the download jungle?

if you're on linux wine is a package available in most distributions and you usually "sudo apt-get install wine" *you're

Even available on Homebrew on OSX (doesn't yet have 2.0 final it appears)

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by bigbugbag »

jedimastert wrote: post #78
EamonnMR wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One I can think of right off the bat is gaming, especially old games that might never be ported to Linux (or, for that matter, remain compatible with newer versions of Windows). Also, for a while (before they DRM'd it) I ran the Reason DAW on a linux box. They didn't have windows 7 drivers for my MIDI keyboard at the time, but they did have Linux drivers somehow.

Ableton runs pretty well from wine too. Almost no messing around

bitwig has a native linux version.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by bigbugbag »

bandrami wrote: post #11

Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?

Same as before: World of Warcraft and playing other windows game. Probably itunes for those with idevices.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by LeoPanthera »

rrdharan wrote: post #63
bandrami wrote: post #11

Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?

I use it to run the 1Password app on Ubuntu.

How? It's a UWP app which Wine does not support.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by mixedCase »

teach wrote: post #50
bandrami wrote: post #11

Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?

Back before the demise of what.cd, I used Wine for Exact Audio Copy. As far as I know, there was still no "approved" cd ripper that would run natively on Linux.

I remember opening the thread shortly before WhatCD died. Whipper, a fork of Morituri had passed all the tests and was awaiting admin approval for at least 6 months.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by platz »

bandrami wrote: post #11

Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?

Falcon 4.0 AF. Very accurate flight sim; it's old enough that you don't need a cooling tower plugged into your laptop to run smoothly.

Re: Wine 2.0 released

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Post by thoth »

bandrami wrote: post #11

Cool. I have to admit I haven't thought about Wine in a while because I can't think of any software I use that doesn't have a Linux version. What are people's use-cases nowadays?

Others have mentioned games... plenty of those.

I have some minor apps I run like Zone Five Software's "Sports Tracks" (exercise logger), gaming helper utilities, etc.

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